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millhaven@intergate.com wrote:

>
>hchickpea@hotmail.com wrote:
>> bearclaw@cruller.invalid wrote:
>>
>> >Who are any of us to judge the value of such programming for anyone else?
>>
>> Bearclaw, you have it ass-backwards.  I was risking arrest by showing
>> films like "Midnight Cowboy" when most people reading this had no
>> conception of what the issues were, or weren't even conceived.  The
>> argument that was used then that no censorship is acceptable was a
>> rallying cry to allow _adults_ who actively wanted to see X rated
>> material to be able to do so.
>>
>
>You, sir, are a true American hero

Yeah, fuck-off, more of a somewhat scared kid who was fed up with blue
laws and looking to keep working, but then most "heroes" who are
honest have similar stories.  Damn, there is a great movie line on the
subject in Stunt Man, but I don't remember it right now.
>
>> There is censorship now, there always has been, and in many cases it
>> has been for the good of both the individual and the community.  The
>> availability of adult material does not mean it has to be so blatant
>> that it drags society into the gutter, nor that it has to be available
>> to children.  Even within the adult film community, there is
>> censorship, both imposed and self-imposed.  Even that inherently
>> liberal community has limits to what it considers acceptable.
>> 
>
>Ever see any Max Hardcore flicks?

Leave it to you to dig up the dregs.  Why not ask Bearclaw to champion
his being  on primetime broadcast as an artistic genius?   IMO, Max
just needs a dose of his own ... a few times, and then a ticket to a
padded room.